1569. ] LETTER FROM PROF. J. REINHARDT. 55 
front of its neck. It follows that both species are alike met with in 
Eastern and in Southern Africa. 
By the kindness of Mr. Knight and other gentlemen connected 
with the Ipswich Museum, I am enabled to exhibit a pair of loose 
horns of the smaller Kudu, which are about two-thirds grown; that 
they belong to a different species from the other is at once percep- 
tible upon comparison. Those upon the stuffed specimen in the 
British Museum had long been full-grown; and their much abraded 
appearance indicates the individual to have been aged; yet from 
base to tip they measure only 193 inches in a straight line, and fol- 
lowing the curve 24 inches; greatest width apart (at the tips) 
12 inches. They are thus only two-fifths of the size of the horns 
of the other species, which commonly attain to 4 feet or more in a 
straight line from base to tip, and 53 feet round the curvature ; 
from anterior base of horn to nostril (in the stuffed specimen) 
74 inches, and ears 8 inches. In the smaller of these two species of 
Kudu the horns are more prominently angulated, and their spirature 
is considerably more tense than in the other; indeed what consti- 
tutes the posterior angle of the horn at base, and appears to the 
front about the middle of its length, hardly deviates from a straight 
axial chord (fig. 3°, a 6), round which the horn twirls; while in 
S. kudu the spirature is invariably much more apart—and not 
varying, as it does so remarkably in the horn of the Markhore Goat 
(Capra megaceros). The horns of the smaller Kudu are extremely 
rare in collections, the reason probably being that, as horns of this 
kind are chiefly brought as trophies of the chase, the smaller have 
been neglected on the supposition that they were inferior specimens ; 
and the only pair which I know of in any English museum (besides 
those upon the head of the stuffed example in the national collection) 
consists of the two loose horns now exhibited from the museum of 
Ipswich. Dr. Gray, in his ‘ List of Specimens of Mammalia in the 
British Museum’ (1850, p. 143), under Strepticeros kudu, notices 
“*Var. smaller. Inhabits Abyssinia ; Mus. E.I.C.; Mus. Frankfort, 
adult and young.” I consider this small Kudu, of which adults of 
both sexes are figured and described by Sir Andrew Smith, to be 
decidedly a well-marked species ; and therefore I now propose for it 
the name of Strepticeros imberbis. 
at 
January 28, 1869. 
J. Gould, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair. 
The following extracts were read from a letter addressed to the 
Secretary by Prof. J. Reinhardt, F.M.Z.S., dated Universitetets 
Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen, January 15th, 1869 :— 
** Among the different interesting contributions which my excel- 
